The day in brief — October 30, 2026
The stories that led the day, ranked by how many independent outlets covered each one.
Patrick Stewart will no longer say «Make it so» — Captain Picard has left the starship, along with a world where Star Trek seemed eternal. While fans rewatch favorite episodes, Binance deals with the largest hack in crypto history — $6.3 billion vanished faster than a warp jump.
The day's stories
- Binance confirms $6.3B theft in largest crypto hack on record
- Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86
- Novaya Gazeta announces shutdown
- Pope Leo XIV to vote by mail in US midterm elections
- Court orders IIHF to let Russian teams back into tournaments
- Evacuation begins in Oleshky: 25 buses and humanitarian aid
- Christa Pike speaks out after botched execution: 'constant pain'
- Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian refineries — Novak
- Scottish police probe Andrew, Epstein and Maxwell's Balmoral stays
- Pentagon asks Baltic states to soften rhetoric on Russia
Other stories of the day
- Polish president accuses PM of seizing constitutional court
- US approves $2.1B Patriot missile sale to Ukraine, but deliveries delayed
- Gen Z protests in Germany turn violent, shops looted
- G20 family photo canceled in Atlanta amid Russia boycott
- Spain train crash death toll rises to 69, French citizen among victims
- Nearly 300,000 households in Ukraine left without power after Russian strikes
- UK PM Burnham 'open' to formal apology for slavery, rules out reparations
- Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil, vows to run before 2030
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